Spiritual Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am become a transparent eyeball...

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge is the antidote to fear

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear always springs from ignorance.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything in our world, even a drop of dew, is a microcosm of the universe.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of thehuman mind to new…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real; that law…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein. There is in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature. Therefore is nature glorious with form,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Spiritual force is stronger than material force; thoughts rule the world.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson